TEST SOLUTIONS - Quality Injection

Requirement Validation

Early stage evaluation of cleanliness of requirements, design can play a vital role in ensuring cost effective validation. It is generally understood that late stage identification of defects significantly increases the cost of fix by multiple times compared to early stage detection and fix. However the act of validation of early stage artifacts is far more challenging as these are fuzzier that code. Assessing the correctness of the code behavior which is a realization of the expectation is indeed far easier compared to statically assessing the correctness of requirements.

Typically reviews/inspections are the means to identify defects in the early stage artifacts of SDLC. Reviews/inspections are a formal examination of the early stage document artifacts and the effectiveness of the review/inspection is dependent on the process rigor and maturity of the reviewers.

This solution on the other hand, pursues the act of evaluation from scientific and disciplined perspective significantly complementing the effectiveness of a typical review process.